Powder puff or dip



ME. FROMERT POWDER PUFF OR DIP June 23, 1931.

Filed March 14, 1951 'ENVENTOR v MAR/E f. fROME/ZT' BY lwer ATTORNEY)Patented June 23, 1931 PATENT oFFi-cr.

MARIE E. FROIERT, Oil EAST BOGKAWAY, YORK rownnn run on inn IApplication filed. March 14, 19:51. Serial No. 522,698.

This invention relates to improvements in powder pufis or dips and themethod of making the same.

The invention has more particular relation to improvements in puffsformed from fibrous materialin such manner that the puff proper and ahandle for grasping it are all part of the same material.

The object of the invention isto produce a powder puff or dip of fibrousmaterial in such manner that the puff proper is flufiy and will pick upand dust powder upon the skin while a portion of the fibres is sorestrained as to form a handle for the puff.

A further object of the invention is to produce a powder puff and itshandle from fibrous material which has been previously dyed in itsprocess of manufacture.

A further object is to produce a sanitary .0 powder puff which isprotected in the different stages of its manufacture until the finalstage when itsprotecting covering is re-' moved, when it is immediatelyplaced within a container until used.

which will be hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 refpresents a perspective view .of a roll of the brous materialpartly broken go away, which constitutes the first stage of theprocessfor manufacturing the puffs.

Figure 2 represents a similar view after the outer sanitary transparentprotecting coating has been applied to the roll.

Figure 3 represents a perspective view of a section cut from the roll,for one pufl'.

Figure 4 represents a detailed perspective view of the operator removingthe protecting sanitary cover from the fibrous material, and Figure 5representsa perspective view of a finished puff or dip.

Described in general terms the method of producing the improved powderpuff is as follows:

rolled tightly into a long roll as shown in Fig. 1. This roll is thendipped into a suit- The invention also has other objects, all of Thecotton, wool or other fibres are first coated on its exterior by dippingor brushing with a flexible translucent material that is suificientlytransparent to disclose the dye fibres within it. The roll is now outinto the proper lengths as shown in Fig. 3. The rolls I are now packedinto suitable receptacles and an}f ready for the process of producingthe pu Up to this point and during the handling of the roll, it will beobserved that the outer no translucent coating 3, has protected thecotton or fibres and prevented them picking up dirt, bacteria or anyother substance injuribus to the skin.

When the rollsare finally ready for the production of the puif, theportion that is to constitute the handle 2 is grasped in the left hand,and the operator with his fingers re moves the part 2 along the line 44,as shown in Fig. 4, and thus uncovers the cotton 5, which immediatelyseeks to expand as shown in Fig. 4.

After the translucent cover 2 is removed along the line 4, the puff isspread out by the fingers into the form shown in Fig. 5. This is readilyaccomplished because the roll has been previously compressed and whenthe ,restraint of the translucent material 2 is removed, it immediatelyexpands. The translucent material for this reason performs twocontamination from handling, and holds the handle portion in itscompressed and semirigid condition to allow the exposed pufl' portion tobe fiuifed out into a large soft fibre pufi, which may be used to takeup powder and dust it on the skin. When the fibres 5 are spread out toform the puff as in Fig. 5, the fibres, having been previously dyed witha harmless dye, assume a very beautiful and soft effect in color, andthis color is the same as the handle, as the dye, in the compressedfibres of the handle 6, may be seen through the translucent material.Just as soon as the process reaches thi stage, the ulfs are immediatelyplaced in a container having a cellophane end through which they may beseen, but which is immediately closed to keep them from anycontamination, and retain them in their sanitary condition. Thecompressed fibres within the handle 6 are rigid enough so that th1shandle may be grasped by the fingers and the puff used to apply powderor the like without the fingers becomin smeared with the powder or colorbeing app ied.

As the dyes used are mostly astel' shades, the effect of these pufi's inpin s, blues and lavenders, when finished, is very attractive.

The puifs, by the above method of chea manufacture, are not onlybeautiful to 100 at, but are so constructed that a ri 'd handle isprovided which is part of the pu and may be thrown away with the puffafter being used once.

A cheap article of manufacture of beautiful appearance and one that maybe thrown away after once being used is'thus produced, and in a mannerthat is thoroughly sanitary.

When the translucent material 2 that covers the puff proper, is pulledback as shown in Fig. 4, it is entirely removed along the line 4, sothat the fibres of the puff may be spread in all directions to produce asymmetrical and round flat puif as shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. The method of manufacturing powder fibrous material pufi's consistingin rollin into compressed rolls, coating these rolls with translucentmaterial, removing a part of the translucent material to leave a handle,and fiuifing the fibrous material out where the protector has beenremoved.

2. The method of making powder puffs comprising rolling a fibrousmaterial into long rolls, dyeing these rolls a suitable color, coatingthe rolls with a translucent material, dividing the rolls into propersections, removing a portion of each section of translucentmaterial toleave a handle for each pufi', and flufiingout the fibrous materialwhich was previously covered by the translucent material removed.

3. The method of making powder pufi's,

which consists in rolling cotton into pomressed rolls, coating the rollswith an outer binding material, removing a portion of this bindingmaterial on each roll to leave a handle, and finally fluifing out thecotton to form the puff I where the binding material is removed.

4. A powder puif comprising a roll of compressed cotton flufi'ed out atone end and a flexible binding material on the compressed end to form ahandle.

5. A powder puff comprisin dyed cotton fibres in a compressed roll andufied out into a puif at one end, and a transparent binding materialover the compressed end of the roll to form a handle and show the cottonwithin.

In testimony whereof I afiix my si nature.

MRS. MARIE E. FRO RT.

